Fall Festival, Halloween Trail, Leaves and Pumpkin Carving (October 24-25)

This past weekend was one of those "no plans" weekends that turned a little big crazy (in a good way) for us. Aside from a VERY wet Friday, the weather the rest of the weekend was outstanding, so it was a great weekend to get outside.

Saturday morning we putzed around the house a bit before getting the boys all dressed up in their costumes and heading over to the local hardware store for their Fall Festival. The boys had a BLAST playing the carnival games (pumpkin bowling, potty toss, plinko, ring toss, mini golf, balloon pop) and thoroughly enjoyed painting a pumpkin. Mommy was a little upset that they also managed to paint a good chunk of their costumes with acrylic paint (which, BTW, you can get most of it out by using a mixture of dawn and hydrogen peroxide), but they had so much fun it was hard to be upset about it for long.

Kendrick went as the Cookie Monster and Cashel as Captain Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

After the boys finally went down for naps (at 2 for Kendrick and 3:15 for Cashel - oy!), Mama got to work getting their costumes washed up and ready for the Halloween Trail at Pioneer Village later that evening. We took off around 5:15 and headed down to Worthington to meet Mark at Pizza Ranch for supper, then made our way over to Pioneer Village to check out Halloween Trail, which was seriously cute. We'll definitely go back in the future. The kids LOVED it, and it was a beautiful night for it as well.

Sunday started out a little crazy, as usual, trying to get breakfast and everyone dressed and ready and out the door for church in an hour. The boys don't eat breakfast at home during the week days, so it's hard to adjust to spending a half hour eating breakfast when it usually takes Mark and I between 5-10 minutes. Regardless, we made it out the door only a few minutes late. This current phase of life is one where we hope that at least the boys are being edified in their classes, because beyond our wonderful Sunday School class (which is so enriching!), it's really hard to make it through church much of the time unless there is children's church. I swear no one elses' preschoolers are as active as Cashel is. He isn't naughty, usually, he's just very busy, and inquisitive, and not easily entertained. We spend most of the church service either in the library or nursery with one kid or the other. I know the days will pass much too quickly :)

After church and lunch, the boys and I headed outside to play in some leaf piles (and for Kendrick, transporting the leaves down the sidewalk, which is now apparently a favorite pastime).

Nap time came late again, and we didn't end up getting the boys up until 5:30, mostly just to guarantee a little sanity. I napped with Kendrick for the first hour and a half of his nap, and it was SO necessary.

Cashel's first request upon waking up was to carve pumpkins, so, of course, we obliged :)

I think they turned out pretty darn cute, if you ask me :)

We really did have a pretty fun weekend, but man was I ready for bed on Sunday night. I'm hoping for a more laid-back weekend this coming weekend for sure! Beyond trick-or-treating, we have no other big plans, and we're more than ready for that!